Microsoft Releases Kinect SDK For Windows 137
soricon writes "Microsoft made good on its promise to release an official Kinect SDK for Windows, opening the door for multiple educational, research and enthusiasts groups to create new and innovative uses for the popular full body movement sensor. Currently in beta, the SDK requires Windows 7 and at a minimum, a dual core machine with a DirectX 9.0c capable graphic card and it is free to download."
Skip the blogspam (Score:5, Informative)
"Article" is terrible (Score:5, Informative)
The blog post must have been written in a hurry by someone whose native language is not English.
Here is the link to the actual Microsoft SDK:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/kinectsdk/ [microsoft.com]
Re:Why so much processing power??? (Score:5, Informative)
The XBOX360 has a triple-core PowerPC processor. And dual core processors aren't exactly new, so I wouldn't call them "beefy." Also, IIRC a lot of processing has to be done host-side of the data coming from the Kinect, so a single core processor probably can't hack it.